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A tutorial is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.
Depending on the context a tutorial can take one of many forms, ranging from a set of instructions to complete a task to an interactive problem solving session (usually in academia).
In British academic parlance, a tutorial is a small clas...

Creating Persuasive Interactive Video for E-Commerce

There's been a lot of buzz recently in the blogosphere surrounding the use of interactive elements to drive up the performance of video, so it begs the question - how should video interactivity be applied to e-commerce video?  The answer, I believe, is that interactive techniques should ...

Service Providers for Real Estate Videos and Slide Shows

A while back ReelSEO interviewed the CEO and Co-Founder of Wellcomemat.  We know that using online videos and slideshows for marketing real estate online can be incredibly effective.  In fact, in September of last year, we covered some research which showed that the use of ...

How To Get Featured On YouTube - See Your Video Featured On YouTube

The video is titled "How do you get featured on YouTube?" Simply put, the answer is - Put some honey out for those "Busy Youtube Bees." Seriously though, create great content and interact with the community. "But I heard there's like a magic formula or something.... the truth.... Youtube only pays attention to what the community is doing" There are, of course, some best practices and tips that you can follow and we will continue to do our best to provide you with all the honey you need.

Instructional Videos and Video Tutorials for Businesses

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Stephen Chao, CEO of Wonderhowto, the largest aggregator of instructional videos on the Web today. In our podcast show, Stephen talks about how a former President of Fox Television and USA Cable decided to get involved in the online video community ...

Videos Are 50 Times More Likely To Rank On The First Page of Google?

Last week, Nate Elliot at Forrester published an interesting blog post titled, "The Easiest Way to a First-Page Ranking on Google.” In his post, Nate discloses the results of a study/experiment that they conducted whereby a series of popular keyword searches were run on the ...

Kaltura.com The Do-It-Yourself Video Solution?

Some of us are the do-it-yourself types or don't have a huge budget to implement a solution from some of the major providers of online video delivery systems. Some of us just need to get our hands dirty and some of us are proponents of ...

Google MRSS and RSS2.0 for Video Sitemaps - Tips and Info

When Google first announced the support for video sitemaps, there were many folks who asked why they didnt support MRSS feeds as video sitemaps.  It then became clear that Google did accept MRSS feeds from some partners, but that they were interested in creating a ...

Remove Video Title and Ratings Info In YouTube's Embedded Player

Today, Youtube introduced another small change to the Youtube emdedded player.  Youtube videos that are embedded within pages will now display a prominent title of the video along with the video ratings information at the top of the embedded player.

Youtube Embed Tip - Remove Embedded Player Search

As you know, many video content producers are utilizing free hosting platforms and video sharing websites like Youtube to power online video on their own websites.  There are clearly many benefits to utilizing these services, primarily the fact that video hosting is free and reliable. ...

Video SEO Tutorial - Using SWFObject 2.1 To Provide Alternative HTML Content (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced Video SEO, Flash Video, and the importance of using SWFObject to provide alternative content for accessibility and SEO purposes. I explained why you would want to provide alternative content for your flash video projects and how to ...

Using SWFObject 2.1 To Provide Alternative HTML Content (Part 1 of 2)

The rise of online video content has led to many questions about Website Video SEO, or how to optimize your videos on your website so they can be crawled and indexed by the search engines.  From a best practices standpoint, there are several things you ...

Youtube Videos In High-Defintion? Hack Youtube for HD Video Playback

Boy was I happy to find out about this....  If you remember our Online Video Predictions for 2008 post from last year, our first was... "1) HD High-definition Video - I expect Youtube and others to follow suite with the sites that already support High ...

Youtube Annotations - Video Marketing Tip To Drive Traffic To Videos

YouTube videos have the capabilities to support annotations. These are notes that are displayed in the video as it plays. They can be informational, narrative and even, interactive as they can link to over videos and YouTube urls.

Video Tutorial - Using High-Definition Video With Adboe Flash Professional CS3

Here is a great video tutorial from Layer's Magazine regarding how to create a web page with HD video (high-definition) using Flash CS3 Professional.  In addition to the video below, you can create your own project and follow along with the tutorial as they have ...

New 'StomperVision' Online Video Marketing Course

StomperNet has launched 'StomperVision' - a new online video marketing course with the coach Mike Stewart. Mike's a StomperNet staff member and is known as one of the most highly regarded online video experts today. The series takes advantage of all the "best of the ...